OBITUARY- LANGLEY Sunday evening at 10.35 at residence. Funeral from residence 2 o'clock Tuesday. ( Could not read some of it ) ----------------------------------------------------------------- OBITUARY newspaper SUDDEN SUMMONS -DEATH OF COMMISSIONER LANGLEY,of the Board of Public Works. He was stricken with apoplexy while in Chicago, Thursday.The city loses a popular, upright and efficient official. At 11 o'clock Wednesday morning a telegram was received at the Board of Public Works office from W.P. Langley announcing the death of his father, Commissioner W.H. Langley which occurred in Chicago Thursday evening. When informed of the receipt of this message Controller Rush immediately ordered the City Hall flag placed at half-mast. Commissioner Langley had been in ill health for several month and unable to give a great deal of attention to about New Years he contracted the prevailing malady, as grippe, which bothered him all winter and induced symptoms of dropsy. Six weeks ago he sought a change of climate going to visit his sister, Mrs G.W. Scott of Sharon, Wisc.in company with Mrs Langley and son, W.P. Langley.His health did not improve, however,and he had reached Chicago, on his way home when strickednwith apoplexy Thursday afternoon From which effect he died in the evning. The remains arrived in Detroit at 10:45 last night accompanied by his widow and son. William H. Langley was past 65 years of age, having been born in England in 1825. His father Henry Langley of 97 East Adams Ave. Came to America in 1830 and resided in N.Y.City and Fishhill N.Y. before settling in Detroit in 1836 and engaging in contracting and building. The younger Langley was educated in a select school in fishkill, N.Y. and in the public schools of Detroit and learned the builder's trade of his father with whom he worked till he was 21 years old after which he was his partner for 12 years. He then took contracts on his own account and built many of the principle blocks of the city., including the McGraw block at the corner of Lafayette Ave. and Grisswold street. Mr Langley was an active Republican and as such was representing the old first ward in the counsel in 1867 when he was made chairman of the public building committee. In this capacity he had a great deal to do with construction of the city hall for which he was particularly fitted and it has always been a source of gratification and pride to him that his knowledge enabled him to have the work done with the least possible expense to the city, the total cost not exceeding $ 600,000. He was appointed to the Board of Public Works by Mayor Langdon 1869 and has had the office for eleven consecutive years. He was a Free Mason, a member of the Odd Fellows and a member of the Episcopal church. Mr Langley was twice married his first wife being Miss Louise Walker who died in 1870. Surviving children Mrs Stephen A. Griggs and William P. Langley of Detroit and Mrs Kitty McCleod of Chicago. His second wife, who survives him, was Miss Clara Buckley and and their two children named William and Norman. The other surviving relatives are the father and step-mother, Mr and Mrs Henry Langly, aged respectively 85 and 73 years, two brothers Geo. Hess Langley and Henry W. Langley and his sisters Sarah A. Langley, Mrs Sidney Dixon, and Mrs W.J. Hyam of Detroit, Mrs Eliza Royce of Sioux City, Iowa and Mrs Geo. W. Scott od Sharon Wisc. --------------------------------------------------------------